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progeny (noun)

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  • progeny — ► NOUN (treated as sing. or pl. ) ▪ offspring. ORIGIN Old French progenie, from Latin progignere beget …   English terms dictionary

  • progeny — noun a) offspring or descendants. I treasure this 5 generation photograph of my great great grandmother and her progeny. b) result of a creative effort His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date. See Also: progenitor …   Wiktionary

  • progeny — noun (U) 1 technical or formal the descendants of a person, animal, or plant form, or the things that can develop from something else: The drug resistant cells progeny are also drug resistant. 2 old fashioned or humorous someone s children: Sarah …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • progeny — I noun bloodline, brood, children, descendants, family, fruit, heirs, issue, line, lineage, offspring, posterity, progenies, scions, seed, sons, stock, succeeding generations, tribe, young II index child, children, descendant …   Law dictionary

  • progeny — noun genetic traits passed on from parent to progeny Syn: offspring, young, babies, children, sons and daughters, family, brood; descendants, heirs, scions; Law issue; archaic seed, fruit of one s loins …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • progeny test — noun : a test of the worth of a sire or sometimes of a dam based on the performance of its early progeny : an evaluation of the genotype of an animal in terms of its offspring compare sib test …   Useful english dictionary

  • progeny — noun (plural nies) Etymology: Middle English progenie, from Anglo French, from Latin progenies, from progignere Date: 14th century 1. a. descendants, children b. offspring of animals or plants 2. outcome, product 3. a body of followers, disciples …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • progeny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. children, offspring, descendants. See posterity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. issue, descendants, children; see offspring . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. children, offspring, young, issue, descendants …   English dictionary for students

  • progeny — prog|e|ny [ pradʒəni ] noun VERY FORMAL 1. ) singular or uncount a person s child or children a ) the young animals or plants produced by a particular parent 2. ) uncount things that develop from something else …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • progeny — [ prɒdʒ(ə)ni] noun [treated as sing. or plural] offspring. Origin ME: from OFr. progenie, from L. progenies, from progignere (see progenitor) …   English new terms dictionary

  • progeny — UK [ˈprɒdʒənɪ] / US [ˈprɑdʒənɪ] noun [singular/uncountable] very formal a) a person s child or children b) the young animals or plants produced by a particular parent …   English dictionary

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